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“Myriam Marquez is one of Merrill College’s most distinguished alums,” said Dean Lucy Dalglish. “Since her graduation, she has distinguished herself as an award-winning reporter, an incisive editorial and commentary writer, and a newsroom leader. Our students have much to learn from her.”

"Shout on Every Corner" by Myriam Marquez an Alzheimer's Advocate

Seven years ago, Myriam Marquez was driving home when she came to a four-way stop. She wasn't far from her own driveway; she had stopped at this same intersection countless times. Yet she didn't know where she was.

The essay I read this week was , by Myriam Marquez. I really enjoyed reading this essay. The essay was pretty straight forward and was easy to read. The essay explained how Marquez is from a Spanish background that lives in America. Sometimes In public her family speaks Spanish instead of English to other Spanish speaking individuals. Marquez finds it acceptable that people in America do not just have to speak English. Myriam Marquez (left) and Bob Le Roy, president and CEO of the Alzheimer's Association of Western & Central Washington. Myriam has become a stalwart of the Alzheimer's Assocaiation after being diagnosed with younger-onset AD in 2010 Credit: He will join his wife, Myriam Marquez, who works in South Florida for . Marquez, a former columnist at the Orlando Sentinel, was named executive editor of the Herald's Spanish-language daily, el Nuevo Herald, in October.Here are three things learned from veteran journalists Maria Elena Salinas, co-anchor for Univision News; Myriam Marquez, executive director for El Nuevo Herald; Cynthia Hudson, senior vice president and general manager for CNN en Español and Shirley Velasquez, executive director at Latina magazine at Hispanicize 2015.

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It was a Friday. Myriam Marquez was driving home from her job as a public defender for the Skagit County Public Defender's Office in Mt. Vernon, Washington, when she came to a four-way stop: "And all of the sudden, I didn't know where I was, and I didn't know whether to turn right, left or go straight," she vividly remembers. Hysterical, she picked up her cellphone to dial her daughter and explain the predicament. She only lived a half mile away. Once she composed herself, she realized where she was. "But at that moment," says Marquez, 68, of Seattle, "I knew I had Alzheimer's disease."

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"The beauty behind it is that it Myriam Marquez is a columnist at the Orlando Sentinel, 633 N. Orange Ave., Orlando, Fla. 32801.

In December 2011, with Isabela's special-needs status still unknown, Raquel received a phone call from Myriam Marquez, then the editorial page editor for the . The newspaper was doing a story about children with disabilities who were being excluded from public schools, but she was having trouble finding parents willing to go on the record. "Hey, Raquel," she remembers Marquez saying, "I know you do a lot of work with children with disabilities... Can you talk to these parents?"